militainment

Over at Foreign Policy, there's a neat retrospective of "militainment" -- entertainment or educational games with a military theme.

Fast Company Kit Eaton 2010

We couldn't wage our current wars without the all-volunteer military whose recruitment goals get fed every year by idealistic young people, who continue, despite all counter-evidence bursting off the front pages, to buy into the romance and excitement of war and armed do-goodism that the recruiters, with the help of a vast "militainment" industry, peddle like so many Joe Camels.

Robert Koehler: Peddling War to Children Robert Koehler 2010

We couldn't wage our current wars without the all-volunteer military whose recruitment goals get fed every year by idealistic young people, who continue, despite all counter-evidence bursting off the front pages, to buy into the romance and excitement of war and armed do-goodism that the recruiters, with the help of a vast "militainment" industry, peddle like so many Joe Camels.

Robert Koehler: Peddling War to Children Robert Koehler 2010

As someone who has been railing about the fictional quality of so much news reporting from Iraq, and the 'militainment' that has so distorted understanding of the conflict, its exciting to acknowledge that the war finally has a show of its own.

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Foreign Policy journal article that the "militainment" phenomenon can lead to greater distortions in how people view war.

Livescience.com 2010

In the latest edition of Foreign Policy, P.W. Singer examines the growing phenomenon of "militainment," a type of game content that draws praise from actual soldiers and officers as much as it gives them pause in its simplification of a deadly job, and bloodless lack of consequence.

Kotaku Owen Good 2010

Brookings Institute defense expert, Singer wondered if militainment could also lead to a growing sense of detachment among military recruits during actual combat.

Livescience.com 2010

The militainment trend also takes place during a time when those killed in the wear rarely show up in U.S. news, and only arrive home as flag-draped coffins.

Livescience.com 2010

At the same time, the nexus of video gaming, war, and militainment is growing even fuzzier with the rapid growth in unmanned systems that use video-gaming technology to conduct actual military operations (the United States now has some 7,000 unmanned systems in its aerial inventory and another 12,000 on the ground).

Kotaku Owen Good 2010

The best-known game to deal with real-world battlefield scenarios is first-person shooter introduced by the U.S. Army in 2002 and the gold standard in "militainment."

Slate Magazine Christopher Beam 2010